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Some Republican lawmakers still reveling in the recent defeat of a proposal to expand Medicaid coverage to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans are now setting their sights on 230,000 people enrolled through the federal health insurance exchange. State Sen. Brian Kelsey's latest proposal would ban Tennessee from creating a state-run exchange should the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the federal government can't pay subsidies in states that declined to set up their own insurance markets. For many Americans, the subsidies make the insurance affordable. "I'm hopeful the plaintiffs will be successful in this case and it will blow up Obamacare," said Kelsey, R-Germantown. ...

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Some Republican lawmakers still reveling in the recent defeat of a proposal to expand Medicaid coverage to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans are now setting their sights on 230,000 people enrolled through the federal health insurance exchange. State Sen....